After spotting the painted Le Corbu chair on Saturday, we've noticed a small theme of taking design classics and - GOD FORBID! - painting them. Done well, this can be a great improvement and certainly change the style of the piece to make it more contemporary.
That said, we wish to highlight the McCobb Planner Group chairs because they communicate simplicity and beauty at once, AND haven't been mind numbingly knocked off by DWR or anyone else yet. Here is a good Google link to a whole bunch of them.
Our latest cool painting find are these chairs (that are beautiful to start with) professionally painted Greenmount Silk by 
i've taken (scavenged) an old dining chair and painted and reupholdstered it and i absolutely LOVE the way it turned out! i wouldn't advise painting something in otherwise great condition, but when faced with a disintegrating disinteresting mess, it can be a wonderful solution! i didn't even know i wanted a new desk chair, and it brightened up my whole room!
you can see my flikr pics by clicking on my name...
I painted a little wooden desk a fresh white, but it didn't work out how I wanted--
The surface ended up sort of sticky, not the smooth finish I was hoping for. Any tips? What kind of paint is best? Does it need to be glossy to not end up sticky? Is there a varnish that will solve this problem? I sanded a bit first, but it didn't seem to help.
so i used a white Laquer Finish spray paint---the upside is that it is a nice, hard, non-tacky finish that won't likely peel if applied in many thin coats. the downside is that my chair took 5 cans (still only $20) and my finger has been numb for six weeks. literally. it's only the tip of my finger now, and it is almost gone, but if you spray paint things and use more than one can, i can't recommend the trigger attachments that make it more like a gun than an aerosol can!!!! holy cow!
they also have a clear laquer finish in a spray---since you've already painted the desk, you could follow with this to give it a shinier, non-tacky finish....
Though they are not gruesome in the least, I can't read the name without thinking "macabre."
YOU DISS DWR?
no mor DWR for you!
It's "Corbu" or "Le Corbusier", never "Le Corbu".
I prefer L'Idiote. Or Le Bad Architect.
God I hate Corbu, if only for how he almost single-handedly destroyed the American city.
Iteresting!
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McCobb's chairs have always reminded me of the captain chairs at Red Lobster. And therefore, popcorn shrimp.
Nakashima did it with more elegance, and hasn't been co-opted by some Banana Republic billboard... not yet anyway.